Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER
LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,109,903 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ($2,679,434). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 124
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Latin American Youth Center does
Mission
To empower youth to achieve a successful transition to adulthood through comprehensive and innovative programs that address youths' social, academic, and career needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing: layc's housing department provides comprehensive programming for runaway, homeless, and unstably housed youth (rhy) across washington, dc and maryland's prince george's county. Specific services include street and community outreach, rhy drop-in centers for immediate and harm-reduction care, emergency housing and transitional housing placements, and intensive case management and wraparound support. In partnership with local continuums of care (coc), staff screen and assess the specific underlying causes of homelessness for each rhy and develop individual service plans to guide case management strategy. Across all services, staff help rhy to attain housing, access community resources, reunify with family (as appropriate), and build academic, job readiness, and life skills necessary for long-term independence.
$4,605,871 spentof which $5,463 as grants31% of program spendingLayc/mmyc: layc's organizational divisions in maryland serve montgomery and prince george's counties. Programs include afterschool and school-based academic enrichment and mentoring programs, as well as employment training, ged preparation programs, and housing programs.
$4,526,346 spentof which $266,283 as grants$84,284 earned by the program30% of program spendingPromotor pathway: layc's promotor pathway supports dc and maryland's most vulnerable youth to successfully transition to adulthood through empowering, long-term relationships with trustworthy adult mentors. Promotors, or "guides," provide intensive, long-term, one-on-one mentoring and case management to youth. Youth often face multifaceted barriers such as homelessness, academic disconnection, unemployment, mental health or substance use challenges, and/or complex family issues.
$1,805,448 spent$665,399 earned by the program12% of program spendingCommunity wellness: layc's community wellness department offers free community-based health services, health education classes, and mind-body wellness activities to promote behaviors, skills, and knowledge foundational to youths' holistic development. Programming covers key public health issues such as sti/hiv and pregnancy prevention, household nutrition and food access, substance use prevention and harm reduction, and education on sexual health and healthy relationships. All staff provide robust wraparound support to address youths' basic needs, including linkages to other layc services and extended healthcare services offered by layc community partners. All services are designed to be free and accessible.
$1,659,526 spentof which $18,471 as grants$580,297 earned by the program11% of program spendingEducation and workforce development: layc education programming includes comprehensive in-school and out-of-school programming to eliminate barriers to students' in-school engagement and academic achievement and build pathways for students to attain post-secondary education and/or career success. Staff build collaborative relationships with youth and school partners to enhance services. Activities include tutoring and homework help, academic advisement and case management, academic enrichment and field trips, and college and career readiness workshops. Layc's workforce development programs connect youth to local employment, internships, certifications, and training opportunities to help youth enter high-growth industries such as healthcare and information technology. Specific workforce development programs includes pre-ged and ged classes, job training, and individualized career coaching and case management.
$1,397,989 spentof which $21,887 as grants9% of program spendingSocial services: layc's social services department provides free counseling, treatment, and support to address youths' mental health, substance use, and family conflict challenges. Layc's licensed mental health counselors offer individual, group, and family therapy sessions, and use a variety of therapeutic approaches to address youths' complex needs. Layc is dc department of behavioral health-certified in mental health rehabilitation services, substance use disorder treatment, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Our services are offered as school-based and community-based programming, with counselors working on-site at layc's facilities, on-site at partnering public schools, and via telemedicine appointments. Counselors work alongside youth to build resilience and responsive coping strategies that help them navigate complex life experiences.
$1,086,859 spent7% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,082,039.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $6.9M to $9.0M (+31%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 64% · 2018 68% · 2019 69% · 2020 71% · 2021 70% · 2022 73% · 2023 84% · 2024 76% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Mirna Quinteros-Grady
President and CEO
Board chair
Yvonna Stevens
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 48 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $1.9M.
23 of 124 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 124 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 22% · 2019 20% · 2020 18% · 2021 15% · 2022 32% · 2023 25% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 135 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 135 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24.1M on record — $20.8M federal, $3.3M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$16.1M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.0M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$610k
- Department of the Interior$83k
- Grant$3.3M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER?
- LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,109,903 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ($2,679,434). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 124 organizations giving $21,109,903 in grants to LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER, 82 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER?
- UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA is the largest funder on record, with $2,679,434 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 124 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing